Eagle Ascending: An explosive debut novel

Whitfield’s ambitious thriller effectively eases readers into its fantastic premise with a prosaic opening. –Publisher’s Weekly New York cop Joe Krueger is about to arrest a notorious drug pusher when his life changes forever. He witnesses a bomb tear through one of the city’s biggest Jewish museums, leaving dozens dead. In the aftermath, the case takes an even more horrific turn: footage from the scene suggests that the bomber is Joe’s own grandfather, infamous Nazi General Wolfgang Kruger, who died 70 years ago. With time running out until the next attack, Joe Krueger is forced to confront his family’s monstrous past. Piecing the clues together, he discovers that his grandfather had been ordered to recover the True Cross for the Third Reich, and that modern-day neo-Nazis are racing to complete his mission.

Armed with little more than a burning desire to expose this plot, Joe travels across Europe and the Holy Land fighting to stop these men and their plan to tip the globe into another world war.